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Ban bored suburban housewives!

Drunk commies deleted
23-05-2006, 15:39
There is a threat to our young people. A dangerous threat that seeks to control their minds and turn them into unquestioningly obedient robots. That threat is bored suburban housewives. Just recently one such scumbag has decided to try to ban seven books, including the book Freakonomics.




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Economics is not widely considered to be one of the sexier sciences. The annual Nobel Prize winner in that field never receives as much publicity as his or her compatriots in peace, literature, or physics. But if such slights are based on the notion that economics is dull, or that economists are concerned only with finance itself, Steven D. Levitt will change some minds. In Freakonomics (written with Stephen J. Dubner), Levitt argues that many apparent mysteries of everyday life don't need to be so mysterious: they could be illuminated and made even more fascinating by asking the right questions and drawing connections. For example, Levitt traces the drop in violent crime rates to a drop in violent criminals and, digging further, to the Roe v. Wade decision that preempted the existence of some people who would be born to poverty and hardship. Elsewhere, by analyzing data gathered from inner-city Chicago drug-dealing gangs, Levitt outlines a corporate structure much like McDonald's, where the top bosses make great money while scores of underlings make something below minimum wage. And in a section that may alarm or relieve worried parents, Levitt argues that parenting methods don't really matter much and that a backyard swimming pool is much more dangerous than a gun. These enlightening chapters are separated by effusive passages from Dubner's 2003 profile of Levitt in The New York Times Magazine, which led to the book being written. In a book filled with bold logic, such back-patting veers Freakonomics, however briefly, away from what Levitt actually has to say. Although maybe there's a good economic reason for that too, and we're just not getting it yet. --John Moe

Furthermore, the would-be censor admits she hasn't even read the books! She's only seen exerpts from them.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bookban22.html
Yootopia
23-05-2006, 15:42
I know how to cheer them up!

Drugs!

Hurrah!
Kazus
23-05-2006, 15:43
There is a threat to our young people. A dangerous threat that seeks to control their minds and turn them into unquestioningly obedient robots. That threat is bored suburban housewives. Just recently one such scumbag has decided to try to ban seven books, including the book Freakonomics.



Furthermore, the would-be censor admits she hasn't even read the books! She's only seen exerpts from them.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bookban22.html


The Bible is obviously the only book that should be allowed in classrooms.

Actually, can we just ban suburbs...period?
British Stereotypes
23-05-2006, 15:43
Actually, can we just ban suburbs...period?

Agreed!
Czardas
23-05-2006, 15:47
Actually, can we just ban suburbs...period?
Great idea. Then we can sprout wings and fly to Venus.
Kazus
23-05-2006, 15:52
Great idea. Then we can sprout wings and fly to Venus.

Sweet!
Greater Sagacity
23-05-2006, 15:52
I don't know if its true in the US, but in the UK, many young adolescents (this included me several years ago) are exposed to far worse things.....

Does one not find it insulting that we apparently need to be coddled by our parents? We do afterall have more backbone than they evidently give us credit for.

I concur, Bored Suburban Housewives should be persecuted.
Ilie
23-05-2006, 16:50
Don't worry, that's why we have "Mother's Little Helper."
Heron-Marked Warriors
23-05-2006, 16:53
Don't worry, that's why we have "Mother's Little Helper."

I'm not sure if that should be a drug or a vibrator
Kulikovo
23-05-2006, 16:54
I guess it's about time I looked into a career of being a poolboy or gardner ;)
Ilie
23-05-2006, 16:55
I'm not sure if that should be a drug or a vibrator

Well, I was specifically referring to Valium, which had that nickname. But I'm very sure that somewhere in the world there is a vibrator named Mother's Little Helper.

...you're probably right, that lady just needs to get off occasionally. Sheesh!
Heron-Marked Warriors
23-05-2006, 16:56
...you're probably right, that lady just needs to get off occasionally. Sheesh!

I think we could solve a lot of the world's problems with sex.
Turquoise Days
23-05-2006, 16:58
Hah, I like the image that came up as part of the Ad next to it.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y67/Anabasis/suburbanmom.jpg
Turquoise Days
23-05-2006, 16:58
I'm not sure if that should be a drug or a vibrator
I guessed the Gardener.
Dinaverg
23-05-2006, 17:00
I think we could solve a lot of the world's problems with sex.

I concur. At the very least, people will be too busy to mess things up.
Ilie
23-05-2006, 17:02
Yes, sexual energy is channelled into many things...mostly violence, but when you can't do that, just start getting mad at things. And, you know, beehive hairdos that look like big butts.
Dinaverg
23-05-2006, 17:33
Yes, sexual energy is channelled into many things...mostly violence, but when you can't do that, just start getting mad at things. And, you know, beehive hairdos that look like big butts.

Hmm...Sexual Energy, eh? I'm thinking renewable resource. :D
Steel and Fire
23-05-2006, 18:01
Hmm...Sexual Energy, eh? I'm thinking renewable resource. :D
Sexual energy-powered cars and power plants... full-scale orgies that are abruptly cancelled will get ships moving... "PMS bombs" will become the new WMD... Ah, the possibilities! :D
Szanth
23-05-2006, 18:06
I concur. At the very least, people will be too busy to mess things up.

Hm, so Clinton had the right idea after all. :p
Tufty Goodness
23-05-2006, 23:10
Oh, the possibilities...

Entire blue-balls-fueled civilizations. Cars that plug into repressed Christian's sex drives.

I'm forseeing this to be the solution to Earth's energy problems. We have enough sexually repressed individuals on this planet to take care of our energy needs.